Awakening (Emotion Spectrum)

[@dr.lauragrace9446]

Very helpful. Since awakening from the belief in a "mythical me," emotions arise spontaneously and somatically...no more narrative-based emotions. However the physical sensations are intense and I am aware of being a witness to the heat that arises in the body. I will practice your suggestions. Thank you, Angelo.

[@pchabanowich]

Some decades ago, my dharma buddy and I began our process in earnest - it is clear like a gong note the day I realised and said, ''OMG, this is all emotional work!'', and I felt at that time unequal to the challenge. As an artist (from the get-go), all these fantastic emotions which I encountered and indulged I 'believed' as if they were true - vision squeezed through angst. In spite of the mountain of difficulties which seemed to face me, persistence kept the process alive. Years. Not one nano-second of this is imperfect, not one molecule is out of place...🦋

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Very well said, I love that story. Good to have a dharma friend ☺️

[@pchabanowich]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Early on in the friendship with this 'companion on the journey', we both realised that the treasure we shared is rare, and is a great boon, as you say. Dr. Gautama was also quoted in saying how valuable a dharma friend is. There is a quality of the tale of the Jataka twins in this story. Thank you for taking the time to write your kind response. Having sent some of your material to my buddy, we are sharing these moments of wisdom you present so clearly. Your work is so direct, so lean. Perfect distillations. 💫🌟

[@FetterMuncher666]

I keep finding gems like this one in your back catalogue. Sincere gratitude for making them they have been like life lines of late

[@KK-qd6ro]

Just resting in it does the work. Perfect description. When overwhelmed by all the people in a mall one day, I froze ( my usual response) but the panic did not come. I was some how in space out of time? It's was like a big soft space holding me, sound stopped, and I watched all the people in slow motion. My fear of helplessness melted away. Luckily i was with my sister who got me out of they. I had a floaty disconnected feeling for about half an hour. Then I knew I choose how I respond always. I'm really enjoying your videos. Thank you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Beautiful. Sometimes it just takes one salient experience like this to realize that the reaction is actually a choice.

[@Cp_9900]

So what did you do differently?

[@KK-qd6ro]

@@Cp_9900 Thank you for your question. But I'm afraid you wont like my answer. Your question is pretty much my response to the experience. But it gets worse, no one else can answer that question for you. 💜🙏

[@Cp_9900]

@@KK-qd6ro ah no worries, I’m not experiencing some miracle cure. Was interested because Angelo said we have a choice so thought i was missing something. Thanks for your reply 🙏❤️

[@birgit8996]

You are a "gold treasure" Angelo !!! 🌟

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You are!

[@birgit8996]

❤

[@TheEvaluna1975]

Your voice feels always so calm and soothing it brings me back to being a child listening to a bedtime story... I can easily fall sleep through your talks when I'm tired after a long day or a short night 😉 please don't take me wrong! It's still engaging and fascinating... I guess I just need to be well rested before listening! You're a blessing Angelo! 🤗❤❤❤🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I'm so glad!

[@lornequarles9316]

Hey, so full of thankfulness for these videos. Feels like hand holding through the hard stuff. Went through a wonderful 1 1/2 year "honeymoon" and hitting that shadow hard. Comforting to hear how normal this is. Interesting how it differs from soul to soul.

[@pavelpavel8413]

After registering/not involving/passing through this waterfall of thoughts for several months I finally managed to sincerely look at emotions with "inner eye" let's say (no head involved), especially the physical aspect of emotions and walk these energetic sensations home with my attention and it always releases in laughter. Uncontrollable and hysterical. I know laughter is a classical sign and when I saw people laugh so stupidly at some sessions I always had a feeling that a lot of them fake it because they just want to wake up so bad. And I used to get so irritated. Ironically it got to me. I've been laughing for 3 months already this is ridiculous. The more serious and dramatic things are the harder I laugh 😛🤣. Which was a challenge in public places. It fades away now I sort of laughed myself out I guess and it changed to short experiences of just losing myself and becoming reality as is but every now and then I giggle in my fist at myself.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Beautiful!

[@emma_and_a_horse]

Wow. Exactly what I needed to take the next step. Thank you 🙏✨

[@robanderson1706]

Just absolute gold! This is fantastic! Thank you so much!

[@dar_jada]

I keep experiencing these flash backs (blips) of past experiences throughout the day. Something in my current experience triggers them. Before this work and your pointings, I would have let mind take me down a rabbit hole drowning in these flashbacks and creating a story about them. I do from time to time experience a feeling of regret associated with this recall of an experience like, "I wish I had not done that." I am much more aware now, more conscious of when my thoughts " go there" and I can let them go instead of marinating in them. Now they last only femtoseconds because my consciousness sees and this awareness allows me to let go.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Awesome. So much of this process is about letting go , truly

[@maryamsh28]

This is very helpful. I quite enjoyed the video. Thanks

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad to hear it!

[@philipkolyos8230]

How do i deal with a 40 year crippling depresssion and anxiety please.....ive searched within for years for its root cause. Thankyou.

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Resting in what is here. Thanks for sharing this wishing love, grace, courage and understanding for all. 🎯☮♥😶 🙏

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Are you a Rush fan? Thinking of their song "Emotion Detector"....

[@nuria.l-l-9827]

Is there a list with all the post-awakening videos?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

consciousness, equanimity, non-duality, shadow work, no-self all address post awakening among others :)

[@nuria.l-l-9827]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake 😅 OMG... challenge accepted...😎

[@johntayor9511]

Thank you Angelo 🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You are very welcome

[@emmasmith9578]

Listening to your talks are like having a psychedelic experience without the LSD and all the wreckage 😊

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

:)))

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I try to minimize wreckage but it does occur on occasion 😆

[@emmasmith9578]

Its like if an LSD experience took itself out of the field bare foot and off to university to explain the experience in an articulate way, (as best as one can point to what cannot be defined), your book is definitely the thesis. Its great when intellectual types find the gold because some write it down 😂.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@emmasmith9578 I love the way you communicate. Are you a poet?

[@emmasmith9578]

No I'm not a poet. Brother I LOVE the way you communicate. Throwing petals at your feet 😂 seriously. This shit has been my lifes work and I can finally put my feet up 😂

[@JorenK]

Years ago, I read "The Power of Now" and Tolle recommended an exercise of feeling the energy body, and keeping a small portion of your awareness on that energy field throughout the day to help maintain presence. I've practiced this. I mainly feel the energy in the chest area, but it sometimes feels like almost a radiance. The intensity waxes and wanes throughout the day. It's calmness. It's love and joy. Other people have also mentioned they notice it at times. I've practiced it so much, and can usually keep some awareness on it throughout most of my day. I've tried using inquiry on it to see if it's really me. I do have awareness of it, so I don't think it's really me, but it's so much closer than other emotions that come up in life. Is this something I'm attached to because it really does feel like love and joy? Is this something I need to release because I am attached to it? Thank you

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

No need to worry about attachment to it or release. If you want to deepen the realization I recommend while having attention there doing some inquiry such as, "Can I find a boundary between this and the external of the body?" Then don't think about it or it will appear divided, rather follow the immediate experience with attention, in a sort of affectionate way between the awareness of external and the energy field you have clarified. Slowly back and forth. Then can do the same with consciousness (the space that feels like I), maybe around the head or at what feels like a center. Just slowly and keep attention dissolved into this, keeping some alertness to when it becomes a thought/conceptual :)

[@birgit8996]

There is only what is there .... body sensation ,when I see a new video of you now .... the thought of curiosity, what the video is pointing out ..... a crinkling or tiling in the body All emotions seem to be body sensations ,triggered by thoughts💬

[@birgit8996]

This flowing, tingling sensation in the body, also appears without thoughts, I just "see" ... it's just there, for no reason🤷

[@birgit8996]

@Ann With you too? .... Feels good, doesn't it?

[@nat998]

It's all the same "stuff" maybe? What arises first: emotion ❤️ or thought 💭🤔!? As the wise sage Morrissey once warbled : "Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno..." 😝

[@birgit8996]

@Nat Is it important to know? What is the body, what is the mind? Label, .... thought? What is without the word thought? 💭 Without the word emotion?

[@nat998]

@@birgit8996 not important 😂 without thoughts and descriptors life simply is flowing in pure unfiltered free fall ❤️ Emotions and thoughts are of the same ilk 😉 they pass through the energy centers of the body... Allow emotions to flow through❤️

[@evglenka1]

I feel deep shame during and after social interactions. It’s very unpleasant and intense. Do I try to just feel it in the body without going into thinking?

[@TPot1222]

Angelo, there seems to be a filter of subjectivity that overlays the experience of sensations/emotions. This feels to be a barrier to experiencing sight, sounds, emotions etc directly. Is this sense of subjectivity also just a thought that will ultimately fall away with deeper realization? Any suggestions on how to probe deeper into the senses and go beyond the apparent filter of “me”?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

yes for sure. Check out and utilize the non duality playlist

[@TPot1222]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thank you 🙏🏻

[@Phantom.1]

Nice!

[@smartsuka]

Did anyone else notice the reference to one of my favorite movies? That's a freaking awesome t-shirt but I guess we're not going to talk about it... You know it's in the rules. I love the visuals of your videos however I was wondering if you have a podcast audio only version of your videos?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I don’t but maybe in future... if I figure out how to go about it. I have had people tell me they sometimes listen without watching

[@smartsuka]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I hope you're able to figure out a podcast, I'm sure there are free services for creating one where you can upload the audio tracks. I'm one of those people who listen to the audio only. One time I fell asleep, but then woke up in an altered state, with you guiding me through exactly what I was going through in that moment. I am starting to realize this is just a path to a place, but there are other paths and other places to go explore as well. Breaking through the barriers through those veils and can be tough. I appreciate you for sharing a way, pointing to a path. A path of paths!!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@smartsuka Ok i'll look into that

[@Mevlinous]

I sense that this is where I need to be looking, no pun intended. The sense of being the view, does seem somehow reinforced by the taken for granted aspects of the body, specifically for me, the face, head, eyes, etc. In the cycling of the sense gates, specifically between nondual sound and bodily sensation, I notice that unexpected sounds are the most nondual, then I cycle to the sensation in the body, and the most direct, nondual feeling vision is that directness, non dwelling on a sensation. Maybe after half a second as the mind dwells in the sensation, a sense of an observer seems to emerge. Should i continue to open that gap between initial direct contact of sensation and the opening of the subject object division, and if so, what would you suggest i do, or don’t do for this to happen? Or is there nothing that can or should be done?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

No need to investigate a gap necessarily. IOn direct sensing there is only sensing! Investigate this immediacy :) At other times if it feels like being pulled back into awareness can then investigate whether there is a belief operating that is keeping the thoughts operating in a dualistic fashion.

[@Cp_9900]

Wow 🤯

[@Awarewolf-sc]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Awarewolf-sc]

🙏🙏🙏